ANNULMENT OF A CHILD MARRIAGE
MARCER
(Emelene, of Halsall) and HUNTER (Thomas, of Aughton, both near Ormskirk, Lancashire)
Copies of the Draft Depositions of the witnesses on each side,
including the husband, in English, and of the Final Decree by Robert Leche, LL.D., principal officer of the Archdeacon of Chester's court, in Latin, all with transcriptions. Thomas Tatlock, 56, and William Scarsbrick, 40, who had known both since infancy, depone for Emelene, that at the time of the marriage, 2½ years previously at the house of Thomas Halsall, by "Sir James, Curat of Formbie", Emelene was "about ten years of age" and Thomas "not above thirteen", even on the morning of the marriage the children "knewe nott of ytt but were compelled ... by there parents", Thomas Hunter refers to his coming "to lawfull yeares of discretion", Emelene had lived at his father's house till last Christmas, but "he could not abyde the saide Emelene and never woulde", he approached Scarsbrick as his kinsman, and Tatlock as his father's executor, to procure a divorce, he had never "saide or done any acte that he thincketh in his conscience hee ought to have her to his wife" and vouches for her virginity, he can not tell "whye they were maried in a howse" instead of in church. The final decree says that everything has been thoroughly considered, confirms that nothing Thomas has done invalidates his claim, that the marriage is annulled and both are free to remarry with a clear conscience. The depositions 4 sides 12" x 8¼", the judgment 1 side 11" x 10½", Chester, 24th March 1579 (new style
the depositions, neatly restored at top and bottom with old paper, with loss of a number of words or phrases (most can be supplied by context
Item Date:
1580
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17635
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MARSH
(Herbert, 1757-1839, Biblical scholar and political writer, from 1819 Bishop of Peterborough)
Frank signed to Mr Wasey in Wardington, Banbury,
Peterborough, 8th September
Item Date:
1821
Stock No:
51898
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CAEN, 1612
MARTIN
(Richard, and RUETTE, Royal Notaries at Caen, Normandy)
Document Signed, in French with transcription and translation,
their signatures with elaborate flourishes against forgery, in a neat and pleasing hand, a "Contract of Release", completing a transfer of houses and heritable property in Rouen Sexte to Elisabeth de Saint Simon, Dame de Sottevast, who, being in civil separation from her husband, Guillaume de Couvert, Sieur and Patron of Sottevast, Auderville, La Londe and Coulombs, appears before the notaries "in her own name and as protector and guardian of her children", Rouen Sexte being a sub-fief of Coulomb, between Caen and Bayeux, old summary in top left margin of side 1, vellum, 4 sides 10½" x 9½", Caen, 24th January
first occurrences of names underlined in old blue pencil
Item Date:
1612
Stock No:
54554
£325
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MARTINEAU
(James, 1805-1900, Religious Philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism)
Long Autograph Letter Signed to Rev. Charles C. COE
(1830-1921, Unitarian Minister and writer who advocated non-Darwinian evolution) saying that “In the passage which you quote the connnexion of Andes[?] would be correct thus: ‘who trusted in thee, and were not not ashamed’, i.e. both of them Past Aorists. But this would make them both historical, and limit the statement to a definite transaction, over and gone. It might also stand thus; ‘who have trusted in thee and not been ashamed’; i.e. both tenses, Present Complete. This would make both clauses express the continuous experience of the whole series of prophets & saints in every age. And, if the 2d clause meant, what you understand by it, simply the same thing as the 1st in a slightly modified and negative form, viz, as not being ashamed of God = trusting in Him, this would be the best expression of the idea. Both clauses would have, not only grammatically but, in thought, one and the same subject, prophets & Saints. But the word ‘ashamed’ is used, as so often in our English Bible... in the sense of ‘free to shame’. That they were not ‘put to shame’ but had their trust justified in the issue is an objective historical fact...” continuing at length about the subject ending that to his “feeling then, the appeal to definite historical facts in the past, as justifying a continuous trust of the human soul in all ages, could not be objectively expressed without this particular ‘consecutio temporum’. These refinements of language are difficult to make plain. But I hope you will be able to catch my meaning...”, 4 sides 8vo., on mourning paper, 10 Gordon Street, London, 20th October
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
42316
£125
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MASON
(Alfred John, 1853-1918, Superintendent of Deposit, Reference and Binding Department, Local Government Board 1886-1913)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Madam',
arranging an appointment, 1 side small 8vo., 7 Trinity Square, E.C., 26th August
Item Date:
1895
Stock No:
12921
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